"Use By" dates - costing you money

[Wifezilla]

"Food product dates encourage food wastethats what the creators of ShelfLifeAdvice.com hypothesized. To find out if they were right, they hired Harris Interactive to conduct a survey to test the theory.

More than 2,000 American adults responded to the following question about 10 food products: To the best of your knowledge, which of the following refrigerated food products, if any, would be considered unsafe to consume once the date printed on the packaging has passed? The correct answer? If properly handled, NONE of the products listed would cause illness if used shortly after the so-called expiration date. Yet, 76% of respondents checked at least one. Since most people dont consume food they believe is unsafe to eat, the survey strongly suggests that most Americans throw out a lot of perfectly good food because the date on the package has passed, and they fear the product will make them sick."

http://shelflifeadvice.com/content/do-food-product-dates-make-consumers-safer-or-just-poorer

 

[xpc]

I agree and asked the same question before on opened mayo which I still use and has an expiry date of April 25, my 2% milk was just used this morning and has a July 26 date on it, still smells good plus I always shake it good to blend back in the slick that forms on the top.

 

[Wifezilla]

I did find their comment on eggs a little comical. Only good for 5 weeks? Don't they read Mother Earth News?
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1977-11-01/Fresh-Eggs.aspx?page=2

 

[Blackbird]

We're lucky enough to have a 'Bent and Dent' grocer near us; they get shipments of expired food, items with tears, broken containers from shipping, etc. and sell at a much cheaper price than the regular grocery store. So, the Use By dates are saving us money!

 

[bibliophile birds]

the thing that really pisses me off is that almost HALF of the fresh food that is ordered by grocery stores is thrown away because it's past it's sell by date. most states have even made it illegal for them to sell/give away that produce, even to farmers, so it all ends up in the landfill.... can't even go to a composter.

it's just tragic.

 

[~gd]

I did find their comment on eggs a little comical. Only good for 5 weeks? Don't they read Mother Earth News?
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1977-11-01/Fresh-Eggs.aspx?page=2

Everyone reads Mother Earth News! Try to read carefully "Eggs, properly refrigerated, should last at least 3-5 weeks after the sell-by date," and we all know that the sell by date is 30 days after packageing.~gd

 

[bibliophile birds]

According to research by former University of Arizona anthropologist Timothy Jones, Americans throw away more than 40 percentsome 29 million tonsof all the food the country produces, creating both an environmental and an economic problem.



totally nauseating. no wonder people think we "need industrial farming to feed the masses." just yuck.

 

[Wifezilla]

Blackbird, we have one too. It's called Extreme Bargains. If you know what you are looking for you can catch great deals.

 

[i_am2bz]

Just wondering - does that count for canned food, too? I try to rotate my food storage by only buying a little at a time (how would I eat a whole case of tomato sauce if it all expired at the same time??) I always wondered how long you could safely eat canned food after the expiration date. :/

 

[Wifezilla]

If the can isn't bulging, we use it